3d blue ray versus regular blu ray

thuffman03 wrote: »

If you want 3d and you were me, I would wait. All prices come down over time and quality goes up. Plus in 3 or 4 years they will have new Dolby Digital HD/3d Super duper what ever and the 3d player you have now won't support it.

+1...its getting downright impossible to keep up with the latest and greatest, im getting to old to care anyway.

moraks wrote: »

is it worth it to get a 3d blu ray player now with a regular projector or just get a non 3d blu ray player. I will probably upgrade to a 3 d projector in about 4 years when the technology is more mature.

Wait 4 years then get a 3D player. In 4 years your 3D player you buy today will probably not work anyway since we will have HDMI 1.9 by then.

No sense spending the extra cash on a 3D BD Player now when you won't even use it for 4 years.

Technology is moving so dang fast, 3D might be dead by then as well.

ViperZ wrote: »

What do you want to bet that in 3-4 years we'll have 3D TVs with no glasses?

Good bet. But the off angle viewing out of the sweet spot is likely to be poor. It's very difficult to route two separate images to each eye without glasses.

ViperZ wrote: »

What do you want to bet that in 3-4 years we'll have 3D TVs with no glasses?

How about next year ? They already have them, thats why you see rock bottom prices on regular hd tv's this season. By next x-mas they'll be in full swing but the off axis problem is going to be a deal breaker for some.

Rick88 wrote: »

I predict 3D will never be accepted by the masses and go away like Beta, D-VHS, SACD/DVD-A, HDDVD,etc...

Your list gives you a lot of wiggle room for your prediction, considering that SACD hardware is still in production to this day...

I Install 3D and it's kinda cool and kinda not. There is work to be done on the end user I don't like. Auto modes on these Tv's don't work. You have to pick which "kind" of 3D you are watching like "top and bottom" or "side to side". This sucks as you can't automate this as it's all toggle commands. Then when you want to watch 2D , you have to turn 2D off or go to the non working Auto mode and it works to allow 2D to come through. Then on top of all that crap Samsung has this 2D to 3D up conversion thing that sucks **** as it mostly makes everything look awful . It's DSP modes all over again for video. I hate 3D and the suck **** glasses and they are not cheap. For a family of 4 be prepared to drop some coin.

I'm not saying you shouldn't get a 3D Blu ray player if it has all the other features you want , but I'm sure you can find a Blu ray player with all the features you want and not be 3D. Look into LG and Samsung players , they make affordable players with many features. Also check out Panasonic which I like the best. Streaming is where it's at now and moving forward so getting a player with as much as possible is key.

Us Audio guys still hang on to our Oppo and Cambridge Blu ray players for Audio reasons in SACD and DVD AUDIO. They also make great stand alone cd players but I rarely ever do that anymore now that I store all my cd's in my Apple TV in Losseless.

Knucklehead wrote: »

If I give it to anybody it would be you my friend, because my family thinks Im nuts for having what I have.

My family thinks so too! Good thing we've got our own little family right here on the forum :biggrin:

My girlfriend on the otherhand encourages me to stick to this hobby, she's getting a little into it herself :eek:

bigaudiofanatic wrote: »

From what I have heard 3d BR players can run normal BR's more efficiently and better than a normal BR player. Has something to do with the processing power and memory. Same applies for 3d tv's and none 3d content.

Source of info?

Any link? What passes for efficiency? A few seconds off load times? Just curious.

Makes sense. Just wondering if you'd notice any of these performance gains in real world use since the processor of both machines still has to run the blu-ray to spec and load times have decreased a lot for 2D players.

i have samsung 3d bluray and mitsu 82837 dlp 3d tv.3d is kind of gimmicky looking for several movies i have seen right now.espn broadcasts of football games though were very cool and very impressive so 3d may have potential. i have seen samsung bluray players for under $100 locally at big box stores and sam's club.so if you can pick one up for a good price i woould.

lg tend to have some problems playing regular dvds at least 2 of mine do as well as a friends LG,no such problems on my panasonic.problems experienced are skipping and freezing.

cheddar wrote: »

It's a good rule of thumb to buy the capabilities when you need them, not 4 years out. Blu-ray players are getting cheap enough that replacing a basic one in 4 years won't be such a big deal. The exception to the rule was the ps3 which updated even to 3d with regular firmware updates. But 4 years later, even the ps3 is starting to run out of gas compared to the full feature set of the latest dedicated players.

I'd have to agree with the ps3. While it can do everything, some players can do it better. Of course the ps3, will never be outdated so you can consider it.

Of course, they could put new hardware in an updated model at some point, just like they did with lossless bitstreaming on the slims...